08/12/2011

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ProfWalsh
August 12, 2011 at 3:57 am -

Poor Abby… 🙁

batgirl84
August 12, 2011 at 2:34 pm -

Poor fifthteenth person 🙁

HawksmoorSD
August 19, 2011 at 8:11 pm -

I can’t believe more people haven’t commented on this whole story line. It’s brilliant. Everyone wants to be the hero. Its just that most people never stop to think where being the hero has to end and being human comes into play.

Awesome stuff!

eric bloedow
September 10, 2011 at 11:06 pm -

Mark said it several times: “you can’t save everybody.”

Withdrawn
April 26, 2012 at 11:24 am -

I dunno, I just tend to think of an edit I saw for some panels from Marvel’s Civil War storyline, where one of Captain America’s lines on the whole ‘Superhero Registration Act’ is “You think anyone with half a brain would volunteer for Spider-man’s life?” or something to that effect. I also think I remember seeing this in the 90’s Spiderman, Batman, and Superman cartoons, and the Very Special Episode of Static Shock. My point is that, while you’re right, plenty of people think super-powers would be awesome and most aren’t thinking about the people they can’t save . . . I don’t know a lot of my friends ask “What superhero would you be?” they asked “What super powers would you want?” And also most I think most writers, whether for comics or cartoons, know about this trope, and the good ones keep it in mind without letting it overwhelm.